Henri Bergson

Henri-Louis Bergson (18 October 1859-4 January 1941) was a French philosopher who was known for his influential arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.

Biography
Henri Bergson was born in Paris, France in 1859, the son of a Polish-Jewish pianist and an English and Irish-Jewish mother. He received a Jewish religious education, and he decided to pursue a career in the humanities. He gave courses in Clermont-Ferrand on Presocratics such as Heraclitus, and he served as Chair of Greek and Roman Philosophy at the College of France from 1900 to 1904. Both liberal-minded theologians and socialist revolutionaries appreciated his lectures on change, and he famously believed that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science. He died in Paris in 1941.